The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life
By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active. The state your body enters every night allows the body to restore itself without effort, while the mind is no longer organizing...
Yoga: Where Concentration Ends and Meditation Begins
When to Consciously & Intuitively Let Go of Techniques By Gurudev Shri Amritji Meditation does not begin by forcing stillness; it begins with concentration, the narrowing of focus on the object of attention. While you are holding the asana, you practice directed,...
Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?
The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...
Breath Awareness: A Steadier Way to Move Through the Holiday Season
As the pace of the season increases, the breath often becomes the first place where change is felt. Breath mirrors the state of the nervous system, and even slight tightening or irregularity signals a shift in internal momentum. Breath awareness is one of the simplest...
Habits Are Habitat for the False Self
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiWe often think of habits as small behaviors that either help us or hold us back. Yet in yoga, habit is understood on a much deeper level. A habit is not only about what you do, it is about how your energy is being used, repeated, and...
Mental Calories: How Unseen Thoughts Weigh You Down
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiToday, we are careful about what we feed our physical bodies. We read labels, count calories, take supplements. But we do not apply the same care to what we mentally and emotionally feed ourselves. The thoughts we think, the judgments we...
The Root Illusion: You Think You Are Seeing the World, But You Are Seeing Your Past
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji The ego-mind operates like a projector, not a camera. It doesn’t take in life objectively—it throws out old film reels onto the present moment, coloring your perception with past emotional memory. Every time you say, “I know what this...
The Missing Link in Healing: Breaking the Cycle of Stress
Written By Gurudev Shri Amritji Stress is more than a feeling. It is a lived pattern stored in the body, reinforced by past experiences, and repeated through unconscious reactions. I AM Yoga Therapy™ works at the root of this cycle, helping you meet the places in...
I AM Yoga Therapy™: Returning to the Source of Healing
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Most people attempt to heal by fixing the symptoms. However, true healing is not in treating the outer surface; it is in returning to the Source. I AM Yoga Therapy™ is a sacred practice of remembering the wholeness that was never...
The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Guru Purnima is a sacred day in the yogic tradition, observed on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashadha (June–July). It has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time to honor the guru—the spiritual teacher and inner guide...
Not Just Air: The Power of Breath
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Breath as Bridge Between Conscious and SubconsciousYour breath is not merely a physical function. It is the living bridge between your mind, the conscious, thinking self, and your subconscious inner body, which operates automatically...
Accessing the Source of Oneness
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji When you are identified with your self-image, it acts as a screen of self-concepts and pre-learned perceptions. It arises from the reactively distorted impressions stored in your memories of the past. When you perceive through this...
Celebrating World Yoga Day, 2025: You Are Not the Particle, You Are the Field
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji On this World Yoga Day, let us return to the true essence of yoga—not as exercise, but as the direct realization of your eternal Self. Yoga experientially teaches you that you are not the limited body or the fragmented mind. You are the...